Cesic~(~R) -- Manufacturing study for next generation telescopes

摘要

Under ESO -European Southern Observatory - contract ECM has performed a feasibility study for the manufacturing of Cesic~(~R) primary and secondary mirror segments for the OWL-Telescope. The main issues of this study were to demonstrate the feasibility of the serial production (～ 2550 segments) of Cesic~(~R) mirror segments under a certain schedule and cost optimisation aspect for the segments. Part of this study was also a pre-design of a manufacturing facility for this big amount of mirror segments. This study is limited only up to the manufacturing of a polishable surface, the feasibility of the polishing capability is not part of this study.